Fantastic Prompts and Where to Find Them

We offer bi-weekly creative prompts for "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them". The primary relationship should be either Newt/Tina and/or Jacob/Queenie, either romantic or friendship. Secondary ships are welcome but *must* remain in the background.

[writerswritecompany]

Quotable – Malcolm Cowley

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[wbsloan-deactivated20240714]

“Stories never really end…even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don’t end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.” ― Cornelia Funke

[writingdotcoffee]

Overnight Success is almost always a myth. Half of this industry is luck, and half is the refusal to quit.

V. E. Schwab (via writingdotcoffee)

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The rules on what is possible and impossible in the arts were made by people who had not tested the bounds of the possible by going beyond them.

Neil Gaiman (via writingdotcoffee)

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May 19 Prompt

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How to Write a Book While Working Full-Time

It would be wonderful to be a full-time writer. Most of us still need a job to pay the bills, though. Here's how to write a book, even when you're working full-time.

[kitwillan-deactivated20181205]

It’s okay to read through your first draft and realize that 75% is terrible. That’s why we refine. That’s why we have second, third and fourth drafts. The trick is to not give up and just lay on the floor when you come to that realization.

[entrenous88]

“No writing is wasted. Did you know that sourdough from San Francisco is leavened partly by a bacteria called lactobacillus sanfrancisensis? It is native to the soil there, and does not do well elsewhere. But any kitchen can become an ecosystem. If you bake a lot, your kitchen will become a happy home to wild yeasts, and all your bread will taste better. Even a failed loaf is not wasted. Likewise, cheese makers wash the dairy floor with whey. Tomato gardeners compost with rotten tomatoes. No writing is wasted: the words you can’t put in your book can wash the floor, live in the soil, lurk around in the air. They will make the next words better.”

— Erin Bow (via observando)

[writingdotcoffee]

It’s always hard, when introducing readers to a new world/set of rules, not to lay it all out manual-style in the opening chapters but make sure to put the action and the characters at the front. If people don’t become invested in them and in the story, the world in which it’s set will become a burden.

V. E. Schwab ( @veschwab )

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Quotable – Andre Dubus II

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May 5 Prompt

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Headcannon:

By the end of “TCOG”, Tina, who has defied the law repetedly during the incidents of Paris, is informed by the MACUSA that she has crossed the line at last and is dismissed summairly.

Yet right after this, Theseus asks if she would like to work for the british ministry of magic  … as head of the aurors department, he can recruit her, though they still have to negotiate with Torquil Travis as head of the department for magical law enforcement … either he agrees because of her high skilll and morals, or the british aurors, either for her part during the incidents of New York and/or Paris or because they have found a liking in her, argue strongly for her employment… maybe also pointing out that Newt Scamannder may “become less of a problem when she is around…”

She signs in for to her new post and moves to London, where her and Newt finally get a chance of further process in their relationship - not to mention since Theseus is now constantly demanding that his brother finally asks her out…

[katiehavok]

Hey JKR, whaddya say we make this canon, hmm?

[writingdotcoffee]

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

— Syliva Plath

[brynwrites]

Half of writing is believing that someone will love your work, and the other half is having the motivation to keep writing until one of the people who love your work is you.

Someone repeating the same concept you’ve heard many times before just with slightly different wording.  (via rp-michael-j-caboose)

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Readers vs Writers

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Prompt for April 21

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Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.

Isabel Allende (via writingdotcoffee)